Re: Question on build process
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 07:31:51PM -0400, brf@nac.net wrote:
> Hi
>
> I grabbed the source to an abondened package. I checked the bug reports
> and no bugs were filed.
>
> I made all the changes to the files in the debian directory and run
> debuild on them. All the files were built but the .diff ?
>
> Not sure why this did not appear but my quess is that since I did not
> make any changes in the source but only the files in the debian directory?
Because you don't have the pristine upstream source tarball, so
dpkg-buildapckage considers that you are doing a native debian package,
which does not have .diff file.
A reason for this hapening, even when the upstream tarball is there, is
that the name is wrong (often happens when the _ after the package name
an d before the version is a - as upstream source often use, and is
difficult to spot)
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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